Burkes Bridge VIC 3568
17 addresses · 4 streets
Mallee Electorate › Gannawarra LGA › Burkes Bridge · 226 km from Melbourne
Living Here
Burkes Bridge is a suburb of Victoria, home to about 14 people, with a median age of 58. The typical household earns around $2,249 a week. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Gannawarra statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Burkes Bridge itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Kerang Airport, 35.6 km west.
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 47.8% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 47.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 81.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Burkes Bridge
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 6 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Burkes Bridge
| English | 9 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Cars per household in Burkes Bridge
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Burkes Bridge
| Car | 5 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
4,574 bird observations recorded near Burkes Bridge — most often seen:
- Yellow Rosella (195)
- Whistling Kite (187)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (187)
- Pacific Black Duck (185)
- Superb Fairy-wren (179)
- Little Raven (176)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (168)
- Galah (166)
- Northern Superb Fairy-wren (164)
- Straw-necked Ibis (163)
- Brown Treecreeper (158)
- North-eastern Brown Treecreeper (158)
- South-eastern White-throated Treecreeper (154)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Burkes Bridge
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (149)
- Striated Pardalote (146)
- Common Starling (144)
- Australian White Ibis (143)
- Weebill (141)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (138)
- Western Striated Pardalote (138)
- House Sparrow (136)
- Rufous Whistler (136)
- White-faced Heron (136)
- Willie Wagtail (136)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (134)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (134)
- Red-rumped Parrot (132)
- Little Pied Cormorant (131)
- Common Bronzewing (130)
- Laughing Kookaburra (130)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Burkes Bridge:
- Wee Wee Rup (2.4 km)
- Daltons Bridge (4.5 km)
- Keely (5.9 km)
- Leitchville (6 km)
- Horfield (9.8 km)
- Cohuna (10 km)
- Gunbower (12.1 km)
- Mcmillans (13.6 km)
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Streets
- Cohuna Island Road (11)
- Hipwells Road (1)
- Moffat Road (3)
- Taylors Road (2)
